Pharmac and Condoms

Pharmac and Condoms

I see those clowns at Pharmac have decided to subsidise condoms to the extent that now through them you can have a choice of 18 different styles. Yet Pharmac can't be arsed to give women suffering from the early symptoms of beast cancer a subsidy on a drug, known to deal with it.

Are our priorities wrong? As a tax payer, I'd rather finance the breast cancer medicine. Instead of financing condoms. Easy solution for pregnancy, if you dont want to go there, keep ya legs closed and say no to the idiot who's too tight to go and buy his condoms.

there are always cheaper alternatives to condoms, such as crisp packets with a rubber band (can be used again as well).

So is a woman holding a disprin between her knees without any hands Frankie.

what does a bass player use as a contraceptive? his personality
Cosimo2008-08-21 22:05:18

a husband and wife are waiting at the bus stop with their nine children
a blind man joins them after a few minutes
when the bus arrives,they find it overloaded and
only the wife and the nine kids can get on,
so the husband and the blind man decide to walk.
after a while the husband starts to get irritated by the constant clicking
of the blind mans stick.he says to the blind man that noise is driving me nuts,can you put a rubber on the end,to which the blind man replies
if you had put a rubber on your stick we wouldn't be walking you t**ser. Lonegunmen2008-08-21 22:11:55

Yet Pharmac can't be arsed to give women suffering from the early symptoms of beast cancer a subsidy on a drug, known to deal with it.

Worst decision EVER.

"Hey guys, we've got a cure for a major cancer! But we're not going to give it to you because some uptight fundies would rather people die than have sex outside of marriage"

[Edit - I was thinking about the HPV vaccine & cervical cancer, not Herceptin & breast cancer. My bad.]
robbwatson2008-08-25 18:48:27

You got that right Robb. My jokes above aside, i am very supportive towards women whom suffer or have suffer from this hideous disease - like every form of cancer. When a certain medication can help them so much why do we deprive them, yet Pharmac also spend a fortune on Condoms??

I'm with you. Hopefully this will become an election issue because really, they got this DRAMATICALLY wrong.

And that is not a bad suggestion, I wonder if any politicians is prepared to pick it up and run with it?

ACT is far more user-pays than National, so count them out

Pharmac is politically indepedent so the only thing parties can say is that they will provide more funding

Which National & ACT won't!

You didn't happen to go to Evans Bay Intermediate did you?

FFS

Oh Dairyflat? So you would rather Pharmac gives you a choice of 18 different types of condoms free and begrudges women of cancer surviving drugs? At least the female users on here know where you stand Dairyflat. Lonegunmen2008-08-25 01:02:53

They are not "clowns".

Oh? You know them?

this is one of the worst decisions of all time. i liked how the rep was saying this will save taxpayers money. yeah, all the taxpayers except the ones who get breast cancer and have to buy their own medicine.

http://www.womens-health.org.nz/topics/Herceptin.pdf dairyflat2008-08-25 14:05:20

Gotta love user pays. Free market economics at its best

Saying? Nothing at all. I merely put up a couple of links that might , after reading them, let some on this thread be better informed.
Informed discussion is always a good thing. Don't you think?